>sounds reasonable, but the reality is when a developer tries to bring physical things like that onto the screen, it fails more often than it succeeds.
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>>I wanted it to run like you would do on a piece of paper: Water? Check. Icemaker? Check., so I Made the alignment right, and lined them all up to the right, and that's what it came out like at runtime - NUTS!

Indeed, you can find many examples of that in MS own products. I once owned a book "About face" from Alan Cooper. Lots of examples of GUI design mistakes from MS itself.